APRIL 2008
Festivals, Festivals, and more Festivals!
T H E M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E
The on-going film festival where you don't just watch films, you experience them!
512 Espanola Way at Plaza de Espana (305) 67-FILMS (673-4567) www.MBCINEMA.com
APRIL at a Glance:
South Beach International Animation Film Festival (THU 03-06)
Miami Beach Dance Festival Night at the Movies (TUE 08)
Sicilian Film Festival, with special guest FRANCO NERO (WED 09-14)
Independent LENS: A Dream In Doubt (THU 17)
"Cine-IMPROV Live": Jarman! (SAT 19)
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (April 25-May 03)
with"On The Edge: The Films of DEREK JARMAN" (April 26-May 23)
and "Travesti Extraordinaire" Exhibition by Lesly Hamilton
DOCUSPAIN: Memory Train (SUN 27)
South Beach InternationalAnimation Festival
03 THU 8:30pm:
International and Art House Animation
(including , but not limited to, the following short films)
Jingaroo (Beckett Entertainment/Australia/10:00)
What cartoons do the kids "Down Under" watch?
One Skin (Gudrun Cram-Drach/USA/10:16)
One women?s journey.
A-ha! Butterfly Rescuers (Paul Paik/Korea/4:21)
Insects living in a ending machine are force to find a new home.
Let Her See The World (India/5:00)
A protest against "Female Foeticide".
Anti Smoking (India/1:05)
Third World countries are addressing the issue of cigarette smoking.
YoYo (Boaz Zachary/Australia/3:10)
How one adventurous boy surfs the big ones in Australia.
04 FRI 8:30pm: Animation for Adults
(including , but not limited to, the following short films)
Father & Son (Shawn Robertson/USA/1:30)
The time honored ritual of a father teaching his son how to throw a
ball. How sweet. Or is it?
Chicken Sushi (Rich Jackson/USA/1:07)
Coming to a diner near you?
Yum Yum Treats (Matthew Feuer/USA/:30)
Man?s best friend does his best to negotiate getting the treat of his dreams.
It Could Be Worse (Zack Horn/USA/5:32)
This film is dedicated to anyone who has lost a night?s sleep with a snoozer.
Alley Cats (Derrik Dean/USA/7:22)
Ladies, a sale and a bowling alley. What could go wrong?
Nude Nule (Soule Movie/Korea/X Rated/3:00)
On a country back road one man does his best to bridge the generation gap.
Once you see this film, you will never think of Korea the same way again.
05 SAT 2-4pm:
Saturday Afternoon with the Toons
Concept Development Workshop
Have you ever had an idea for a great cartoon? Come to this workshop and learn
how to get the idea out of your head and down on paper. Once on paper your concept
is just a pencil stroke away from becoming a short film. The two-hour workshop will
allow participants to explore the relation between story and character development.
Through enjoyable and creative exercises (principles of writing, story design and
cinematography) they will develop their own story learning how to translate an idea
into an initial storyboard?s first draft.
With Diana Arrambide of the Computer Animation Department
of Miami International University of Art & Design.
$15 or $12 MBC Members
05 SAT 8pm:
Awards Night with Awards Party
categories include grand master, international, student
(including , but not limited to, the following short films)
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones/USA/10:00)
One of the greatest cartoons in the Warner Bros. library from its
Golden Age of Animation is, hands down, this 1953 classic.
A Mouse?s Tale (Sam Armitage/UK/3:10)
A tale of an English mouse, his mother and a curious cat.
Monster For Sale (Simon Testro/UK/3:10)
One boy?s answer to the neighborhood bullies is to hire a Monster.
Let Her See The World (India/5:00)
A political protest against "Female Foeticide"
Hope Springs Eternal (on Noble/USA/7:05)
Such a loser he can?t even commit suicide without screwing up.
Sweet Robbery (Guy Bourraine Jr/USA/12:04)
A sweet old lady is home all alone when a cat burglar enters her home.
After the films meet the animators for Q&A.
Join us afterwards for the Awards Party at CAMEO
(free admission and open bar 10pm-Midnight!)
06 SUN 8pm:
Best of Ottawa Animation Film Festival
The largest of its kind in North America
The Best of Ottawa program showcases many of the outstanding films
presented in the world famous Ottawa Internnational Animation Film
Festival?s official competition. The 2007 program includes exceptional
films from Tom Brown & Daniel Gray, Aaron Augenblick, Tibor Bancozki,
and Matthew Walker. The selected films competed in six main competitions:
Feature Film, New Media, Independent Short Films, Commissioned Films,
Student Films and Animation Made for Children.
Miami Beach Dance Festival
Night at the Movies!
08 TUE 8pm: All That Jazz (Bob Fosse/1979)
With Roy Scheider, Jessica Lang, and Anne Reinking
Like with his previous work abaret, director/choreographer Bob Fosse
succeeds in making a great cinematic modern deconstructivist musical,
thanks to the realism (and surrealism) in presenting the outstanding musical
numbers, and their relationship to the core of the story. As an autobiographical
homage to the world of dance and theatre, Fosse creates an alter-ego, ?Joe
Gideon? (played by the recently deceased Roy Scheider in his best ever role).
Joe lives a life of glitz, glamour, tragedy and drama?with a daily dose of
Vivaldi, Visine, Alka-Seltzer, Dexadrine, and sex, much like his creator (Bob),
who goes as far as predicting his own demise by drug addiction.
WINNER: Palm d?Or Cannes Film Festival
Academy Awards: Art Direction, Editing, Costume Design, Score
Self-reflexive, narcissistic, and entertaining, this film is Fosse's 8 1/2.
High production values and superb acting by Roy Scheider as the artist's
alter-ego makes this musical Fosse's best work.--Emanuel Levy.com
The film will be preceded by an informal talk
with Broadway dancer Christine Bailey
Sicilian Film Festival of Miami
09 WED: SFF Opening Night
with special guest
FRANCO NERO
6:30pm: Wines of Sicily tasting
7:20pm: How to Kill A Judge
(Perche si uccide un magistrato) Damiano Damiani/1974
With Franco Nero, Francoise Fabian, Pier Luigi Apr?:p>
A young film-maker, Giacomo Solaris, is in Palermo for the preview of his
latest success: a crime thriller about a judge who gets too friendly with the
Mafia and is murdered. A resentful Sicilian magistrate orders the film seized,
but then he winds up dead, in a fashion just like that in Solaris's movie.
Q&A with actor Franco Nero follows the film
This special event is $30 (or $25 for MBC Members)
9:45pm: Short With Love, Rossana
10:15pm: The Terracotta Dog
(Il cane di terracotta) Director: Alberto Sironi/2000
With Luca Zingaretti, Katharina B? Giuseppe Lo Presti,
Uncovered in a cave is a secret chamber where two murdered young
people were buried according to a bizarre ritual, presumably in the 1940's.
10 THU: Sicilian Film Festival
7:30pm: Billo, the Grand Dakhaar
(Billo il Grand Dakhaar)
Director: Laura Muscardin/2007
With Nomi Thierno Thiam, Susy Laude, Marco Binini
A sweet & sour comedy based on the true story of a young
Senegalese Muslim with a dream to become a fashion designer.
Between his penniless dodgy boat arrival on the Italian coast an
African and an Italian - Billo, our hero, survives it all.
9:30pm:
SFF Cocktail Party at Karu and Y
Life Achivement Award to Franco Nero
with The Plague-Sower (Diceria dell untore)
With: Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave
featuring live performance by Marivana
Karu and Y
71 NW 14th Street
Miami
This special event is $40 (or $35 MBC Members)
11 FRI: Sicilian Film Festival
7pm: Documentary Stories of Sicily
(Racconti di Sicilia) by Sasa Salvaggio
7:55pm: Golden Door (Nuovomondo)
Director: Emanuele Crialese/2006
With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato
Set in 1913, Salvatore, a widowed father decides to make the
difficult voyage to America with his two sons. Just before boarding
the boat, they meet a mysterious and refined British woman
who pretends to be with them.
WINNER: Venezia 63 Silver Lion revelation, 2006
Italy's official submission to the Academy Awards
10pm: The Goldfinch and the Cat
(Il gatto e il cardellino) Director: Alberto Sironi/2001
With Luca Zingaretti, Cesare Bocci, Mariacristina Marocco
A series of mysterious muggings takes place in Vigata, ending in
tragedy when one ofthe victims is killed. Meanwhile, a man virtually
destroys the emergency room of the local hospital on discovering that
his daughter is pregnant. A local gynaecologist has also gone missing
and could possibly be dead. Links between these incidents brings each
case to a surprising conclusion.
12 SAT: Sicilian Film Festival
5:30pm: Wine tasting Wines of Sicily
6pm: A Conference with Director Vito Zagarrio:
The Italian American cinema in Hollywood
6:30pm: Three days of Anarchy
(Tre Giorni di Anarchia) Vito Zagarrio/2006
With Enrico Lo Verso, Luigi Maria Burruano
Sicily, July 1943. A little town is shocked by the landing of the
American troops. Fascism is over, but the Americans have not
arrived yet. For three days, the population lives in Utopia, in the
intermission of the power.
WINNER: AJACCIO, Best Film and Best Actor
This special event is $15 ($12 MBC Members)
8:15pm: The Unknown Woman
(La Sconosciuta) Giuseppe Tornatore/2006
With Michele Placido, Xenia Rappaport, Claudia Gerini
A mysterious Russian woman deliberately insinuates herself into
the lives of a young, affluent Italian family, leading the demons
of her horrific past to their doorstep.
WINNER: Best Film & Director, Moscow Int.Film Festival
Italy?s official submission to the Academy Awards
Followed by The Official After-Party at The orge
Complimentary champagne until midnight
Rsvp Required to Juan Carlos: jcpwonder@yahoo.com
13 SUN: Sicilian Film Festival
6pm: Anita, a life for Garibaldi
(Anita, una vita per Garibaldi)
Director: Aurelio Grimaldi/2006
With Maurizio Aiello, Milena Toscano, Ignazio Oliva
Anita is an 18-year-old-girl who, after her fathers death,
has to live in Laguna, the small town where her mother works.
She wishes for a better life and tries desperately to change her situation.
The film is inspired by the figure of Aninha Ribeira de Silva,
the girl Giuseppe Garibaldi met in Brazil in 1839.
WINNER: Italia Film Festival Internazionale del Salerno.
7:45pm: Nothing Is As It Seems
(Niente e come sembra) Franco Battiato/2007
With Giulio Brogi, Pamela Villoresi, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Although retired, Giulio continues to practise his old profession-
teaching Cultural Anthropology at IULM in Milan. He finds shelter
and hospitality where a strange meeting is taking place and it is there
that he will become caught up in an overwhelming experience.
Festival & Awards: Mostra del Cinema di Roma
9pm:
Sicilian Film Festival Fundraising Party
at Villa Viscuso
8300 Hawthorne Ave
Miami Beach
$100 includes Italian buffet,
Wines of Sicily, & cocktails
14 MON: Sicilian Film Festival
6pm: Sicilian Short Films:
Sicilia, a princess story
Simultaneous Worlds (Mondi Simultanei)
The Last man in Brooklyn
Miss Miro' & Capitan Manzoni (S.Catania)
Aphrodites? Birth ( La Nascita di Afrodite )
I have learned... (Ho imparato che...)
A Murder Noir (Delitto con giallo)
The Woman on the Painting
Complimentary admission (Donations always welcome!)
7:30pm: Sicilian Documentaries:
A Sicilian Odyssey (Odissea siciliana)
Places, Memories (Il luogo, la memoria)
Director: Vittorio Nevano/2007
With Andrea Camilleri, Fabio Cannarozzo, Carlo Greca
Writer and director Andrea Camilleri looks back at his youth in Enna,
a city where he discovered the pleasures of reading and writing.
WINNER: CMCA Festival Award 2007
Complimentary admission (Donations always welcome!)
8:45pm: The Moon's Child
(Il Figlio della Luna) Gianfranco Albano/2007
With Paolo Briguglia e Lunetta Savino, Antonio Milo
The Moon?s Child is inspired by the true story of Fulvio Frisone,
a nuclear physicist who lives and works in Sicily. Fulvio was born
with severe birth defects and as a result, doctors diagnose the
impossibility for him to interact with the world.
WINNER: International tv Festival Bar Montenegro 2007
10:45pm: Cut And Paste
(Copia e incolla/Kas Wa Lask)
Director: Hala Kalil Arabic with English subtitles
As she turns thirty, Camilla dreams of emigrating to new lands. She meets
Youssef who is also thinking of travelling abroad. They make a deal that
would help both of them to easily emigrate. But the plan goes to the
direction that was not planned for it.
17 THU 8:30pm: Independent LENS 2008
Florida exclusive previews of award winning documentaries
Presented with HANDS ON MIAMI
A Dream In Doubt (Tami Yeager/2007)
It was the first hate-based murder in the wake of September 11, 2001--one of
thousands of reported and unreported hate crimes in the years that followed.
The victim: a turbaned Sikh man in Mesa, Arizona, where his family had sought
religious freedom, searching for the American Dream. Meet a family still
determined to believe in that dream, even as the nightmare continues for many
religious and ethnic minorities in a climate of xenophobia and fear.
WINNER: Grand Jury Special Mention Slamdance Film Festival
Special Jury Award San Francisco Asian Film Festival
Complimentary screening. Donations always welcome!
19 SAT 8:30pm: Cine-IMPROV!
A LIVE Comedic Jam served with cinema on the side!
Miami's hottest improv actors Michael Murray and Sasha Weisfeld
welcome some of South Florida?s best improvisers... to perform unscripted
theater based on your suggestions, in the art of long form improv," rather than
the typical comedy you see at the clubs and on TV. Including film dubbing, the
Armando Diaz Experience, and a live improvised "movie" based on the life
experiences of one of our audience members, with stylistic parody, edits,
comedic characters, and other scenic devices.
This month?s theme: DEREK JARMAN!
MGLFF:
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
(April 25-May 04)
On The Edge: The Films of DEREK JARMAN
(April 26-May 23)
*Caravaggio*Glitterbug*Jubilee*
Projections*Edward II*Wittgenstein*
with Travesti Extraordinaire
MBC Photography Exhibition by Lesly Hamilton
For the SWINTON/JARMAN
connection Click HERE.
He opened the door with a
camera and never turned it off
-Tilda Swinton
Photo: Time Out London
26 SAT 7:45pm:
On The Edge:
The Films of DEREK JARMAN
Caravaggio (Derek JarmanUK/1986/90 mins.
With Dexter Fletcher, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry
In this groundbreaking work of historic homoerotism, director Derek
Jarman uses the painterly aesthetic style of his famous subject to reflect the
story of art, homosexuality, and identity. The film is like a painting itself,
mirroring the nearly blasphemous works of the seventeenth century artist
who flirted with the underworld and created a complex mix of violence and
sex on canvas. In a life of poverty, young, beautiful Caravaggio (played by
Dexter Fletcher) falls into a scandalous and controversial method of working,
surrounding himself with models who are gamblers, prostitutes, and schemers.
One such prostitute, Lena (played by Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton)
adds complications to his life by becoming deeply involved in his affairs..
WINNER: Berlin Int. Film Festival (for its visual shaping)
Istanbul Int. Film Festival Special Jury Prize
Followed by the Opening Night Reception of
The MBC April-May Photography Exhibition:
Travesti Extraordinaire by Lesly Hamilton
with Glitterbug (1994)
A posthumous montage tribute by Jarman's colleagues,
set to the music of Brian Eno
Travesti Extraordinaire portrays the sublimation of identity. It is the gaining of a
new power, through a mask or make-up by male or female, specifically creating a
means of seduction. It is a disguise of sorts where charm and eroticism combine,
excelling in glamour; an extravagant game which has for so long sustained in my
mind a fascinating mystery! Lesly Hamilton
Film and Artist Reception to follow: $10 and $6 MBC Members
27 SUN 8pm: DOCUSPAIN Season Finale!
Memory Train (El tren de la memoria)
(Marta Arribas and Ana Perez/Spain 2006)
A sensitive and thought-provoking documentary that artfully weaves
interviews and extraordinary historical footage to tell the story of a hidden
part of European history, Memory Train concerns the officially sanctioned
mass exodus of some two million Spaniards to work in European factories.
Every DOCUSPAIN film will be followed by an afterparty at
Tapas y Tintos, featuring LIVE Flamenco, complimentary tapas
and MAHOU beer for filmgoers!
More info on MGLFF and Derek Jarman
in MAY coming soon!
TICKETS:
FILMS: $10 or $6 MBC Members & Students
SBAF Saturday Afternoon With The Toons Workshop: $15 or $12 MBC Members
SFF Opening Night with special guest FRANCO NERO: $30 or $25 Members
SFF Conference with Director Zagarrio: $15 or $12 MBC Members
SFF Fundraising Party at Villa Viscuso: $100
Independent LENS: complimentary
Doors open 1/2 hour before screenings
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